Cathie asked me one of the funniest things I’ve heard in quite a long time. We made hose bats. Yes, we took two pair of thigh-high panty hose and eight wire clothes hangers and bent the wires into ovals and slid them through the hose, tied it off, cut it, and then taped off the […]
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Wow, every new adventure I’ve done has left me with this feeling. On the first day of classes every school year I get home in the afternoon and take a very deep nap. I had to do the same with Seattle. Boston’s first day was also as taxing. I’m not feeling like it’s impossible, thankfully, […]
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OK, so I’m now in Keokuk. What a place. I’ve only driven by the church, but I start work tomorrow morning, so it’ll all be good. Tonight was a great start to my summer here, though. Rodger and Lucille Whitaker are the first couple that I’m staying with. When I first drove to the house, […]
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OK, I’ll admit it. When I was in middle school, I craved Star Wars. I bought all of the books that were out at that time and read them (most of them twice). I made my own legos into characters before Lego actually came out with the Star Wars themed ones. One summer I watched […]
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My hike that I did on the Appalachian Trail was difficult. None of those who went on it with me would argue that.We ended up finishing the 41.1 miles in 72 hours. Little did we know as we were going along that the trail was expanded and relocated on one of our hardest days. Some […]
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Attention Please This semester one of my courses is the Senior Seminar in the Religion Department. I’ve never had a class that required such intense reading and discussions. This past week we read the second half of Diana Eck’s book, Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras (Amazon). In her book, Eck explores […]
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I walked into the Student Center today and saw his face on the TV. It was a face I dreaded. There was no way that the conclave had just elected Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as the pope. Did they? Yep. What followed was a quick jog back to the apartment to watch CNN and skip lunch […]
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What’s that place that’s always open and usually no one will know your name? I had to get transparency sheets tonight that I could print on my laser printer. Staples? Negative, closes at 9pm. Office Max? Negative, closes at 9pm. Target? Negative, closes at 10:00pm (I was close to making it for that one). Wal-mart! […]
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OK, I’m going to quit apologizing for not updating this as often. It’s SO hard to do with a college schedule; or I guess it’s hard with this student’s college schedule. This weekend was one of those moments where I was ‘giddy’ almost all of the time. For the past two semesters I’ve worked with […]
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I’ve known that I can justify procrastination in many things. This website sadly became one of them this past month. I’ve been meaning to do entries and updates every four days or so. Look how bad I’ve kept to that! I’m in the middle of my first week back to school from Spring Break. Instead […]
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